Large birds mangled with a weapon?

 Large birds mangled with a weapon?

Firstpublished in Column 8, date unknown at present, but some time in the 90s. Since this was written a few decades ago, some of these crosswords may have disappeared. The Otago Daily Times, my home town of Dunedin's daily paper, now has a cryptic that alternates between a stinker and one that might be solved. Both are more difficult than the cryptic they used to publish daily. 

 
As I've mentioned before, we have a tradition onholiday of doing the cryptic cr...